Prof. Harald Müller
Executive Director,
Head of Research Department (RD)
RD: Policies for Security Governance of States
e-Mail: muellerNoeSPAM@ thanx-for-not-spamming! hsfk.de
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Biography
1975 | Exam in Political Science and German Literature, Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main |
1976 - 1984 | Research Fellow, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt |
1981 | PhD in Political Science, Goethe-University, Frankfurt |
since 1984 | Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Center for International Relations, Bologna/ Italy |
1984 - 1986 | Senior Fellow, Center for European Policy Studies, Brussels |
1994 | Habilitation in political science at the University of Technology, Darmstadt |
1994 - 1998 | Associate Professor at the University of Technology, Darmstadt |
since 1996 | Director at PRIF |
since 1999 | Professor of International Relations, Goethe-University, Frankfurt |
Further Affiliations and Activities
- EU Consortium for Non-Proliferation Vice President (since 2011)
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Frankfurt University's Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders" (since 2007)
- Member of the expert group on multilateral approaches to the nuclear fuel cycle (2004-2005)
- Chairman of UN’s Advisory Board on Disarmament (2004)
- Member of the Foundation Council of the Federal Foundation for Peace Research (2001-2011)
- Member of the Advisory Council of the Federal Academy for Security Policy (since 2000)
- Member of the German Delegation to the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (2000)
- Member, Commission on Security and the Future of the Armed Forces of the Federal Government (1999-2000)
- Co-Chairman of the Advisory Council on Peace and Conflict, Foreign Office, Germany (since 1999)
- Member of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters of the UN Secretary General (1999-2005)
- Member of the German Delegation to the Review and Extension Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1995)
- Co-Editor, "Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen" (Journal "International Relations") (since 1994)
- Deputy chairman, Section International Relations, German Association for Political Science (1991-1993)
- Visiting Lecturer at NATO Defense College, Rome (since 1991)
- Member of the Working Group on Nonproliferation, German Association for Foreign Policy (since 1989)
- Member of the Core Group, Programme for Promoting Nuclear Non-Proliferation (PPNN) (since 1987)
- Member of the "Task Force for the Prevention of International Nuclear Terrorism" (1985-1986)
Projects
- Antinomies of Democratic Arms Control in the 1990s (closed)
- Democracies and the "Revolution in Military affairs" (closed)
- The Image of the Democratic Soldier: Tensions Between the Organisation of Armed Forces and the Principles of Democracy in European Comparison (closed)
- To Save Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
- Wars of Democratic States Since 1990
- Causes of the Differences in War Involvement of Democracies since 1990 (closed)
- The Transformation of Arms Control. Norm Dynamics and Notions of Justice in Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-proliferation
- A Twenty-First Century Concert of Powers
- Conditions for successful governance in the conflict between sovereignty and justice
- The imperial discourse. The liberal world-view between global governance and neo-conservatism
- Steps Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
- Preparation for the NPT Review Conference 2010: Proposals for the Norwegian presidency of the Seven Nations Initiative (in cooperation with the Norwegian Institute for Foreign Affairs (NUPI)) (closed)
- EU Nonproliferation Consortium
- "Rogue states", "outlaws", and "pariahs": Dissidence between delegitimization and justification
- Contested World Orders
- From Biological Disarmament to Biosecurity: Securitisation or Humanisation of Biological Weapons Control After September 11, 2001?
Selected Publications
- Conclusion. Agency is Central, 2013
- Beyond the State: Nongovernmental Organizations, the European Union, and the United Nations, 2013
- Good International Citizens: Canada, Germany, and Sweden, 2013
- Winds of Change. Exogenous Events and Trends as Norm Triggers (or Norm Killers), 2013
- Regime Conflicts and Norm Dynamics: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons, 2013
- Introduction. Where it all began, 2013
- Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control. Interests, Conflicts, and Justice, 2013
- Security Cooperation, 2012
- Transformation stress democratic soldiers between ideals and mission impossible, 2012
- Publications, 2012
- Noch ein Krieg im Nahen Osten? Zum misslungenen Anstoß von Günter Grass zu einer überfälligen öffentlichen Debatte, HSFK-Reports, 2012
- The NPT review process and strengthening the treaty: disarmament, 2012
- Democracy, the Armed Forces and Military Deployment: The 'Second Social Contract' is on the Line, PRIF Reports, No. 108, 2011
- The Janus Face of Liberal Democracies Militant 'Forces for Good', 2011
- Wie kann eine neue Weltordnung aussehen? Wege in eine nachhaltige Politik, 2008
- Democratic Wars Looking at the Dark Side of Democratic Peace, 2006
- Democratic Peace: Many Data, Little Explanation?, 2006
- Germany’s Conditional Solidarity, 2005
- The Antinomy of Democratic Peace, 2004
- United States Interests and Western Europe Arms Control, Energy and Trade, Studien der HSFK, 1981
Consulting on
- Arms Control
- Disarmament and Nonproliferation
- Nuclear weapons
- World Politics
- German and American Foreign and Security Politics
- Terrorism
- NATO
- Iran
- Transatlantic relations
- German armed forces





